Price-matching policy with imperfect information

✍ Scribed by Wen Mao

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 107 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0143-6570
• DOI: 10.1002/mde.1233

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The model of price‐matching policy emphasizes on the importance of information imperfection. The demand is derived based on the assumptions that consumers have different reservation prices and different preferences over location. When a firm undercuts its competitor's price, it changes the demand structure of the market. The result shows that price‐matching policies are anticompetitive, but they do not facilitate monopoly price. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.